A rare Particularly Dangerous Situation warning has been issued for Southern California as a powerful and potentially ...

The Santa Anas are expected to be most powerful Monday night into Tuesday. Fire services across the region say they are ready ...

Topography matters, too — treeless mountain peaks are typically windier without those trees, or buildings, to slow the winds.

Multiple counties in Southern California were under red flag warnings from the NWS early Monday, with the service warning of ...

At least five wildfires are ravaging Southern California, and the three largest have already killed at least five people, ...

Firefighters in Southern California are once again battling a wildfire, this time in Castaic in Los Angeles County, north of ...

The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region ...

Katabatic winds? Adiabatic compression? Time for a thermodynamics lesson! The record lack of rain has also made this Santa Ana event different.

The Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires devastating Southern California were forecast to return as firefighters scrambled to douse the deadly blazes that have destroyed more than 10,000 homes ...

explains what causes extreme winds like this in Southern California, and why they create such a dangerous fire risk. The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the ...